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Drafts of future lectures for Royal Institution, or US, 19 March 1850 - 1 June 1851

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A series of drafts - short and long notes - and lists of illustrations which are mostly unidentified as to which institution they were prepared for - but all relate to coal. They were possibly prepared as lectures to the Royal Institution, or as new lectures for the US - both titles appear within these notes. Most are undated, some are dated March and May 1850.

  1. 'Notes for future lectures on Coal', draft of new sections on coal, including 'some men are killed during storms of wind by the fall of trees which have grown in their own times; other men are killed because some of these ancient trees which floutishef myriads of ages before their time, happened not to fall'.
  2. Lecture 5 Prose notes pp1-7, 10, written by Mary, and with alterations by Charles. Position of tertiary strata between the Alleghany mountains and the Atlantic..'. With large envelope wrapping entitled ‘Lect.5’ and with newspaper wrapping, 19 March 1850, The Express, with the details written in pen: ‘Lecture on upright Fossil trees 25. Box 2’
  3. Lecture on coal. 1 page of numbered short notes, no.1-4. Refers to tissue from fossil tree of Craigleith. Written on the reverse of a blank printed piece of paper 'Sir, It is my intention to be present at the next meeting of the Philosophical Club. Your obedient Servant’. Labelled in pencil '38'. No date.
  4. Lect. 6. Coal Illust[trations]. Booklet of papers of different sizes bound together. Illustrations numbered 1-18. Numbered short notes with timings.
  5. Lect. Coal continued, several pages of short and long notes on blue paper. Two pages p. 3-4 of prose, next page entitled ‘Lecture Coal continued, for US 1850’, numbered points 9-11. 1 page of 'old diagrams', 2 pages titled ‘Joggins’ and ‘Climate of Coal’, 1 page titled ‘Coal’; discolouration of red sand and red sandstone with Mr Cooks'. Labelled in pencil '40'.
  6. Long notes on blue paper, heavily amended, throughout, this is a work in progress. The theme is coal, but is also referred to as on 'successive forests of erect fossil trees in the coal strata of North America and Europe’.Long notes, dated May 31 1851.
  7. Lect. R. Inst. May 15, 1850. Pp1-2, blue paper. 41
  8. Lecture on coal, notes, March 29, 1850. 1 page of numbered notes 1-8 and timings on the back. Blue paper. 42
  9. 5th Lect. Prose notes, pp.8-9. ‘of Europe and the banks of the Ohio – There are 300 species of fossil plants’. 43
  10. 6th Lect. Prose notes, pp. 1-5. ‘I shall now resume my description of the fossil plants of the coal’.

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  • Creation: 19 March 1850 - 1 June 1851

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